Asia is solidifying its place as the world's epicenter for top-speed Internet access, according to the latest research from Akamai Technologies expected to be published later today. The top four places, ranked by their average peak connection speeds,...

Internet content delivery network Akamai has released its "State of the Internet" report for the second quarter of 2013. Highlights include the change in worldwide connection speeds and the huge increase of "attack traffic" originating in Indonesia. ...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Apple had a solid -- though not stellar -- quart...

Google's rumored plan to acquire Akamai Technologies, which prompted a 17% rise in the latter's stock Wednesday, is just a rumor, says Bloomberg. The news organization quotes "two people familiar with the matter" who dismissed a Business Insider repo...

The verdict in the State of Florida vs. Casey Anthony murder trial coincided with a spike in online news traffic. Content delivery network Akamai tells us that it saw a spike in its Net Usage Index for News around the time of the verdict. As the verd...

American John Isner and Frenchman Nicolas Mahut are set to play in the first round of Wimbledon on Tuesday. It's a rematch of the silliest, longest, most record-breaking tennis games of all time. Last year, Isner and Mahut played each other in the fi...

Not surprisingly, news of Osama Bin Laden’s death resulted in a major spike in Internet traffic as users flocked to news sites for the latest information. Akamai’s Net Usage Index, which measures traffic to top news sites for which Akamai delivers co...

It will still be at least a few hours before we know all of the results of today’s mid-term elections in the United States, but interest in the proceedings is apparently so high that a long-standing (in Internet time) Web traffic record has already b...

For continuous World Cup coverage, check out Mashable's 2010 World Cup Hub, which will be updated throughout the games. The dramatic ending to the World Cup match between the USA and Algeria could set a new record for Internet traffic. We’ve been wat...

According to Akamai's Q3 State of the Internet report, the United States' Internet speed did not qualify for a place in the top 10 list of countries with the fastest Internet in the world, and its average overall speed has actually decreased by 2.4% ...

Data from Black Friday and the weekend points to a growing trend where consumers aren't waiting for Cyber Monday to take advantage of online deals. We already know that the average online purchase was up by 35% and that overall online sales were up 1...

Akamai is a company that may not be familiar to everyone, but most internet users have indirectly used their services. They provide a distributed computing platform for global Internet content and application delivery, and their customers include Mic...

CBS is once again offering live streaming video of every game of the first round of the NCAA Tournament on CBSSports.com. Today, they’re reporting huge numbers for the event, with millions of fans flocking to the site to watch the games from where a ...

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